Walking and Thinking

Took my dog with me on my morning walk...she is so slow and when we get about half way she is finished. I don't think I will take her with me anymore for the whole walk. I will do my walk, stop and get her and take her for a half mile. We did walk about 2.5 miles.

I had my ipod with me as I walked. Started with a little Amy Winehouse, had some U2, Bob Marley, Glen Hansard, Mark Knopfler.

My husband and I have an ongoing discussion on music. He listens to a lot of women vocalists. To me they all sound the same. After a few songs I think they all start to sound the same, I can't tell who's who...most sound whiny to me, he's got a few screechers but none of the women "vocal masturbators." I find that I prefer men's voices - love Bono, Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison, James Hunter, Mick Jagger, the kid who sings for the Arctic Monkeys...the lead singer for the Devlins, Eddie Vedder, and many more...I never get them confused. Never. In fact, I don't think anyone would confuse Bono for Eddie Vedder or Van Morrison for Mark Knopfler. They don't whine, they don't screech and mostly they don't do that vocal masturbation thing. I do like a few of the women - Amy Winehouse, a little Norah Jones (although after about four songs I feel like I need a nap). Just like after too much Neil Young, everybody needs antidepressants!

I wonder if it's a male/female thing - women prefer men's voices and men prefer women's voices, you know, sort of a primal thing...

I put my ipod on random but find myself moving to those voices I prefer...I'm thinking of a playlist of "My Men." Ha, ha!

Playing tennis today. Last match of the season. I'm glad it's over but I've enjoyed playing. What I find interesting is that the level we are playing allows me to make so many errors and still win easily. Last week was the first week I was challenged - but only because I played so bad, and my partner played so bad too! We won but had to play three stupid sets. It was nice outside, a little too windy. Today I play with one of my favorite partners. We have a lot of fun together and that's what I'm all about on the tennis court.

CARE event on Friday was awesome. We had an alumni event for SMU here on Thursday then the CARE thing on Friday. I was so whipped yesterday that it was absolutely awesome to just sit around and do not much. I was starving yesterday. Probably because I hadn't eaten on Friday!

Drank one of our Napa bottles of wine last night - Hagafen Prix Reserve Napa/Sonoma Syrah. It was absolutely delicious. It opened up really nicely and was so flavorful. Loved it.